Good God! This is beyond bizarre. When SNL did fake commercials that satirized ads like this, I always thought they were the products of warped druggie hallucinations. I didn’t think that real ads were as horrific as this.
Can you elaborate? Some of us can’t go to YouTube on work computers.
It’s an add for cold cream, to show that their cold cream is better at removing dirt and makeup than other cold creams. They put slightly radioactive material on somebody’s face and used a geiger counter to show that their cold cream removed the dirt better than the other cold creams and soaps.
Radioactive materials used to be viewed as being largely innocuous. You could go into a shoe shop and look through an x-ray to see how your shoe felt, and you could buy radioactive materials for your children to play with in kid-targeted chemist sets.
I’d actually be interested in knowing whether our current deathly fear of any contact with radiation is justified in any way.
Probably in the same way that hazmat-suit-whole-building-response is for a broken thermometer. It’s not entirely safety masturbation, but it’s something of an overreaction.
Of course, the hazard with radioactivity is cumulative, and there are some functions that we can’t really avoid, like medical x-rays. Radioactive dirt smeared on your face won’t give you cancer by itself, but in conjunction with stuff like x-rays and basic background radiation, it can definitely help tip the scales.
Sorry. When it comes to sheer horror over an ad, this one wins. It’s a 1948 print ad from Lysol, advocating its use as a douche. There are a couple others from previous years if you follow the links below it.
Some suggest that it was really intended to hint at it being a contraceptive “flush” rather than for hygeine, as contraceptivess were illegal at the time in many places in the US.
New “Trinity” Brand cold war cream! Removes every trace of khemr Rouge and reduces overall redness. Leaves you with that warm glow all over.
One early SNL skit involved absurd shaving razors with 2 or 3 blades, making fun of the number of blades.
Hell, they are apparently up to what 4? 5? blades in the real world now.
I am still waiting for the Taste Buds prophecy to come true though!
COLON BLOW!
Have you SEEN some of the cereals out now? There’s enough bran on that aisle to keep the Bay of Fundy regular…
Well, there’s always Doramad toothpaste. Mit Thorium!
I can’t find it online, but I’ve seen an ad for Ovaltine that proudly proclaimed the stuff as prophylactic against asbestosis. :eek:
Gawd I loved Colon Blow!
There was another…Fruit and Fiberglass…I forget the exact R Value though
4 or 5 is normal now. They also had a skit more recently (2000) that featured a razor with 14 blades.
That was a MadTV skit.
John Harvey Kellogg used to prescribe radium inhalation treatments for his patients at the Battle Creek San. I remember my paperback copy of The Road to Wellville had photos of people lying in beds with big hoses running from their faces to big tanks of radium right next to them. And I remember thinking, “What the hell??”
My girly bits just slammed shut in horror.
It’s not a cereal, but…